Perls Before Swine: Introduction
- Perls Before Swine
- The basic Perl filter
- What is Perl?
- Perl is a twenty-year-old scripting language designed for managing text. It is cross-platform, running on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, and probably many more operating systems. It comes pre-installed on most operating systems today, and is used for managing server tasks, formatting documents, and filtering data. It may be the most-used programming language on the web, and has sometimes been called the duct-tape of the Internet.
- The web site
- You can find the latest version of this tutorial, as well as the resources archive, at http://www.hoboes.com/NetLife/Swine/.
- Why use Perl?
- If you’re a web page designer and you’re interested in programming, for example, you’re probably already using PHP. What makes Perl useful instead of PHP? The answer is the command line. Perl excels as filter and as glue. It is great at taking some input—usually text—and modifying it. It acts as a great text sausage machine, grinding up text and spitting it out.
- What do you need?
- What do you need? in Introduction
